• May 28, 2012

pt perhaps the nerdiest post ever written

PERHAPS THE NERDIEST POST EVER WRITTEN

POLL ANALYST FIGHT!

by Jim Newell  4:25 pm February 9, 2009

In the months leading up to the presidential election, the single most important time of the day, every day, was late in the afternoon, when Nate Silver’s “Today’s Polls, dd/mm” from FiveThirtyEight would appear in America’s Google Readers. Nothing excited liberals more than seeing a new SurveyUSA poll showing Obama +7 in Virginia, for example, [...]